WIKI TIKI WEDNESDAY - THE BISHOP AND THE ACTRESS

Lt. Monaghan: 

The case is already wrapped. 

Dr. Quincy:  

Said the bishop to the actress.

'Quincy, M.E.'

"Gone But Not Forgotten"

From Wikipedia:
The phrase "Said the actress to the bishop" is a colloquial and vulgar British exclamation, offering humour by serving as a punch line that exposes an unintended double entendre. An equivalent phrase in North America is "that's what she said".  Each phrase is an example of aWellerism, exposing a second meaning of what precedes it. The versatility of such phrases, and their popularity, lead some to consider them clichéd.

The term, or its variant "as the actress said to the bishop", may have been used as far back as Edwardian times, and is apparently British in origin.

The phrase is frequently used by the fictional character Simon Templar(alias "The Saint") in a long-running series of mystery books by Leslie Charteris. The phrase first appears in the inaugural Saint novel Meet the Tiger, published in 1928.

The version "as the girl said to the soldier" appears in a recorded sound test for Alfred Hitchcock's 1929 film Blackmail.

Kingsley Amis uses the line in his 1954 novel Lucky Jim, where a woman offering relationship advice to Jim Dixon says "I can't show you, as the actress said to the bishop."

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